"Seeking a Renaissance man? Look no
further than a cramped room on the campus of Calvin College, where the
coffee costs 10 cents, and the conversation is priceless. The little space
is dubbed the "Emeritorium," so named for the preponderance
of emeritus professors who gather there most weekdays at 10 a.m. to wax
on matters both weighty and whimsical."

During
the summer of 2003, art professor Frank Speyers produced original drawings
of ten Calvin emeriti. He has entitled the effort "Minds Still in
the Making."

The drawings are now on permanent display in the Emeritorium, a small
coffee room located in Hieminga Hall, just off the Hekman Library lobby.

The portraits feature William Spoelhof, Conrad Bult, Steve Vander Weele,
Richard Wevers, John Primus, Frank Roberts, Clarence Vos, George Harper,
Jack Kuipers and Harry Boonstra. All 10 are former Calvin professors and/or
administrators and all 10 continue to gather at Calvin to enlighten and
enrich the lives of each other and any others who might stop by their
meeting spot. Guests are always welcome.

According to Frank, his project "is simply a response to God's kindness
as I found it here at Calvin." He adds: "The 10 are already
guilty of great kindness. Their lives are testimonies of God's abundant
grace."

William Spoelhof, history emeritus and college president

A visitor to the emeritorium; the drawing of Frank Roberts is on the right